The year 2018 will be a big one for Sugarland, it seems. Read on to learn everything there is to know about their upcoming new album.

The Title

Sugarland's new album will be titled Bigger. The Tennesseanrevealed the news on March 30.

The Release Date

Bigger is due out on June 8.

The Record Label

Big Machine Label Group shared the official announcement about Sugarland's upcoming album, but the release will be a joint one, through both BMLG and Universal Music Nashville. The duo was signed with UMG Nashville before their hiatus.

The Album Cover

The album artwork for Bigger just feels big. Sugarland unveiled the cover, which readers can see above, on April 6.

The Producers

The Single

On Dec. 21, Sugarland released their first single in five years; titled "Still the Same," the song officially impacted country radio in early 2018. "Still the Same" finds Sugarland reflecting, "And here we are / We've come so far / Let's leave it better then how we came / Don't be afraid to change / Our love is still the same, still the same, still the same." Although it's a love song, "Still the Same" has a perfect message for a "comeback single" following the duo's years-long break.

“We are thrilled for fans to hear our new music, especially this new single,” says Nettles in a press release. “The title of the song is so meaningful to us as we want fans to know, we are still the same, we are still the same Sugarland they’ve known and loved."

Adds Bush, "We want to finish where we left off. We always knew were going to make music again, so this has been the best of both worlds. We were able to take time to feed our personal passions, and we're excited to come back together to create music as a band again."

Sugarland shared their second single from Bigger on April 20. The song is called "Babe," and it features and was co-written by Taylor Swift. She penned it with Train lead singer Pat Monahan, and it's the only song on the album that the duo did not write; the country-turned-pop superstar approached them about recording the song when she learned that they were reuniting.

"[S]he was excited we were getting back together and reached out, and said, 'Hey, I have a song,'" Nettles says. "And that is a short list, ladies and gentleman, of people to whom she has said, 'Hey, I have a song. Wanna sing it?' So we said yes."

As for the subject of the song, Nettles and Bush say they "don't know" and "didn't ask her" who or what inspired the track.

“I'm going to close my mouth and let her tell that story -- I'm going to let the song tell that story,” Nettles says. "She’s very confessional in what she does with her songwriting. She lives her life out there through it, and you will see.”

Bush says it's a big deal for Sugarland to record someone else's song: "We've never really put a song by anybody else on any of our records, so we weren't really used to sorting through that, and we didn't want to mess it up," he shares. "So we didn't tell anybody about it until we got finished. And she liked it, thank God. It is a good song."

The Songs

Sugarland pulled one song for their new album -- a track called “Love Me Like I’m Leaving,” written with Tim Owens -- from their back catalog, the Tennessean reports. The rest of the record's tracks were written from August 2017 onward.

“I think there’s something with Sugarland that is a higher calling,” Nettles says. “What we’ve been writing for this new record, it is clear we had things inside of us that we felt the world needed to hear. I think translating that pain into hope is something that Sugarland does really well.”

Bush and Nettles completed the songs for the album in early 2018, and the record itself was recorded by the end of February. There's one called "On a Roll" that the pair recorded in New York City in the fall; another, "Tuesday's Broken," was inspired by news of a school shooting.

“This is not about whether you should have a gun or not,” Bush explains. “It’s about, ‘What do you tell a kid?’ It’s a whole different conversation."

The Tour

On Jan. 3, Sugarland shared the first details of their 2018 Still the Same Touron Twitter; although no dates were announced, the duo revealed a total of 48 cities in which their Still the Same Tour will stop throughout 2018. Sugarland's 2018 tour destinations include Columbus, Ohio; Los Angeles, Calif; Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada; and more.